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Tigard, OR, United States, 2012/07/26 - Silent Spirits launches awareness campaigns to raise awareness to the impacts of the FBI's revision to the Unified Crime Reporting definition of forcible rape. Promoting agencies and organizations to post child sexual abuse specific materials.
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In 2007, Silent Spirits Founder was awarded the FBI's Director Award for her leadership in the "Silent Message" film. For the past five years this film has been sitting in silence in a couple garages around the state of Oregon. Child sexual abuse has been a very difficult type of abuse to talk or hear about up until recently with the very public high profile sex abuse cases.
Silent Spirits is a phase II project to the film. We are working to change the landscape of sex abuse in the United States. We have started promoting awareness messaging that demonstrates 65,000, 000 people in the U.S. have experienced sex abuse. This breaks down to 39,000, 000 females and 26,000, 000 males. 1 in 4 females and 1 in 6 males. Savenia has worked for over 15 years in the sexual abuse prevention and juvenile crime prevention fields. Promoting specific messaging is driven by the fact that at least 50% of service organizations do NOT have child sexual abuse messaging in lobbies or offices. Survivors of this abuse deserve to see sex abuse especially when we all post domestic violence, stalking, rape, bullying, substance abuse etc...
We are raising awareness to the FBI's UCR definition revision for forcible rape. Male victims, female offenders and additional types of penetration are now included in the definition. Prior to December of 2012, none of the previously listed victims have been included in our national data. Silent Spirits works to support organizations to assess and implement services for these uncounted victims now... not waiting for data to be collected, compiled and released. The old UCR definition is still posted on the FBI website which potentially demonstrates a long process for inclusion of these victims in national data.?
We launched our social page in December and have strong traffic and sharing of awareness publications.
We launched our Website on July 1, 2012 and in 3 weeks we have had over 1500 hits - no advertising
Our hope is to share our awareness message and work to truly preventing sex abuse of vulnerable people in this country.
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